"Cursed be the social lies that warp us from the living truth"
--Alfred Lord Tennyson

"...If I believe the well-meaning people who understand nothing of my afflication, I may be a lonely audience of one to the outcome."

--For Today, OA

"Hear my words...
Listen to me...
For the ear tests words
as the tongue tastes food.
Let us discern for ourselves what is right;
let us learn together what is good."
--Job 34:2-4

"Bear with me a little longer and I will show you that there is more to be said"
--Job 36:2

TOWN OF THE DEATH OF SIN

What is sin?
You asked.
The moon stung past us.
All at once I saw you.
Just drop sin and go.
Black as a wind over the forests.

--Anne Carson

LETTER TO GODThe dogs were tired and bewildered ( Read more... )

"When you read these I that was visible am become invisible,
Now it is you, compact, visible, realizing my poems, seeking me,
Fancying how happy you were if I could be with you and become
your comrade;
Be it as if I were with you. (Be not too certain but I am now
with you.)"

--Leaves of Grass (Ed'n, 1892)

I splurged and bought an incomplete (because complete would have been prohibitively expensive) few volumes of Whitman's 1902 complete works (of which there were only 500 copies printed) including a few books completely of prose in one of which the following, to his beloved, is ( Read more... )

I KNOW HOW EVERY POETfeels about his new poem ( Read more... )

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--cummings

you said Is
there anything which
is dead or alive more beautiful
than my body,to have in your fingers
(trembling ever so little)?
Looking into
your eyes Nothing,i said,except the
air of spring smelling of never and forever.

....and through the lattice which moved as
if a hand is touched by a
hand(which
moved as though
fingers touch a girl's
breast ( Read more... )

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love is a place
& through this place of
love move
(with brightness of peace)
all places

yes is a world
& in this world of
yes live
(skilfully curled)
all worlds

XXIIIlove is a spring at which ( Read more... )